Tihomir Preradović (born April 6, 1960) is an award winning Croatian music producer and composer. He is the owner of Apollo Music Production and during his career Preradović collaborated with some of the biggest musical artist from
, etc.
Early Life
Born in the city center of Zagreb, Preradović displayed interest for music in preschool, often entertaining people in his household by playing an air guitar and singing popular songs from the radio. After finishing first grade of elementary school in 1967, he receives his first acoustic guitar as a gift from his parents. Soon after he is the lead performer in a school, where he plays and sings Yellow Submarine by The Beatles, with the backing of school colleagues playing cardboard guitars. In fifth grade he moves to Novi Zagreb where he, with his friends from class, forms a band Titanik which only never played or performed together. Preradović soon joined band Pupak which was formed by bass guitar player
PGP RTB and
Aleksandar Pilipenko who liked the album and decided to release it. The album was suppose to be released in the fall of 1987 however, Preradović and Filipović decided that too long had passed between the recording and release with the band member going their separate ways. Despite this, some songs were played on the radio, with the song “Tri boje na nebu” reaching first place on Zlatko Turkalj’s chart on the RVG (Radio Velika Gorica) which was, at the time, most popular radio station. As the band members decide to go their own separate ways, Filipović leaves the band with Preradović staying in the band for a little while. Homo Kiborg’s last concert was in 1988 in the sports hall
Velika Gorica, as the guests in the show program of NAVIS. At this concert, in the brass section,
Bruno Kovačević (playing the alto saxophone) joined the band. Also, during the 80s’, Preradović played in the first teen group in Yugoslavia,
Prva Ljubav.
1990s’
During the late 80s’, shortly after finishing the album for his band Homo Kiborg, Preradović starts working as a sound mixer and soon starts to produce studio albums for bands such as Motus, Phantasmagoria, Sin Albert, Tamnichars, Studeni Studeni and others. He starts working with Vladimir Delač who offered Preradović to collaborate on his projects, with Preradović writing, arranging for other performers with whom Delač collaborated. Around that time, Preradović meets
Divas,
Davor Radolfi and others). With Zrinko Tutić, Preradović also works on arrangements and production for film music for films
When the Dead Start Singing and
Garcia. In 1992, Preradović writes music for film director Tihomir Žarn’s short film “Paranoia?” (film in which
Goran Višnjić had his first movie role). Preradović also worked on a movie
How the War Started on My Island with
Mate Matišić. Between the late 80s’ and early 90s’, Preradović started collaborating with Arsen Dedić. With Dedić, Preradović worked on a few dozen theatre pieces, on music for the series
Jedrima oko svijeta which was broadcast on
Discovery Channel, as well as on several documentaries, animated movies and films. In 1994, Preradović meets Jurica Šiško (Jury de Simbo) who arrives with an idea of making a humorous and equivocal song. The song they made was “Tko je onda dirao Pipi”, which was a hit song the same year and even popular today with the younger generations. In 1996, Preradović started collaborating with
Zdravko Šljivac who invites him to collaborate in producing an international festival “Modri Biser Rovinja” in 1996 and 1997. For the festival, Preradović writes and produces a duet and first studio recording for
Sanja Parmač (today member of
Gelato Sisters) and
Mario Roth (singer of group
Vigor), whilst between 1997 and 2004 working on a popular show
Turbo Limach Show. Through-out the 90s’, Preradović collaborates on numerous commercials for
Kraš with Vladimir Delač, as well as with
Miro Buljan on Emilija Kokić’s studio album “S moje strane svemira”.
2000s’
In 2000, Preradović produces, in collaboration with Zrinko Tutić, albums for
Diners,
Ledo,
Pliva ,
Ožujsko,
Franck, as well as on project such as “Papaya Motomusic”. Preradović also collaborates with foreign artists such as the London producer Silvastone, rapper Blak Twang under the pseudonym Slow Mo’T. In
2006, Preradović produces the song “Sve svoje pjesme poklanjam tebi” which was written and performed by Jelena Žnidarić (today known as
Zsa Zsa). In
2009, Preradović worked on Arsen Dedić's album
Rebus[1] for which Preradović won his second
Porin (music award).
2010s’ and 2020s’
In 2010, Preradović produces, makes musical arrangements and partially composed studio album for Slovenian singer
Limona,
Franck,
Ledo ice creams Quattro, etc.), regional (
Lidl Serbia,
Nektar Pivo) and international (
Lidl Portugal,
Chernihivske), as well as the author of music for various 3D mapping events. In 2015 and 2016, Preradović was the advisor and musical producer in
Jacques Houdek's team in the musical show
The Voice Croatia[2]. After their team won in the first season of the show, Preradović started collaborating with The Voice Croatia winner,
Nina Kraljić, on her first and second album. In 2016, Preradović was nominated for the
Porin (music award award for the Best Musical Arrangement for the song “Zaljuljali smo svijet”
[3]. In 2017, Preradović was in the Croatian jury for the
Eurovision Song Contest 2017. Preradović also wrote and produced music for a multimedia project about Croatian historical figures (science, arts and sports) for EXPO 2021 in Dubai.